Improving students’ reading comprehension through think- aloud strategy at grade VIII MTSN Sipirok

Hayati, Nur (2015) Improving students’ reading comprehension through think- aloud strategy at grade VIII MTSN Sipirok. Undergraduate thesis, IAIN Padangsidimpuan.

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Abstract

This research is talking about improving students’ reading comprehension through think aloud strategy at grade VIII MTs N SIPIROK. Most of Students are low achievement in reading comprehension, students did not have good strategy in reading, students were passive in the class, and students had lack of motivation. This research purposed to describe the students’ achievement in reading comprehension and to identify the factors which influence students’ reading comprehension by using think aloud strategy at grade VIII MTs N SIPIROK. The method used in this research is classroom action research, by implementing the Kemmis design which consisted four steps. Those are planning, acting, observing, and strategy. In this research, the researcher used two reading tests and two cycles. Moreover, the participants of this research are the class of VIII-2 consisted of 29 students and also there was collaboration with an English teacher. Meanwhile, the data are derive among from reading tests, observation notes, and also interview. Based on the research result, showed the improvement mean score of the students. The first test in the first cycle was 66.72 (31.03%),and second test in the second cycle was 80.86 (86.20%). It can be concluded that the mean score in the second cycle was higher than the first cycle. Based on observation notes stated that the student got improvement and the students were more active and interested in learning reading comprehension. Related to the interview result, it could be known that the students’ reading comprehension had improved. It asserted that by using think aloud strategy improve students’ reading comprehension.

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